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18 Apr 2012

Improving Teaching: What’s Evaluation Got to Do with It?

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

... in the national and many local media for months. In New York as elsewhere, the media have largely focused on the ... for All interested funders. Improving Teaching: What’ s Evaluation Got to...

21 Jun 2012

-- POSTPONED -- Saving Our Communities: Historic Preservation Initiatives in NYC

Thursday, June 21, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:00am

The saying “you don’t know what you have until it’ s gone” epitomizes the challenge of historic preservation. ... to illuminate the importance of preservation efforts in New York . Explore...

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22 Jun 2010

Investing in Our Next Generation: English Language Learners and Their Families

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 9:00am to Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 5:00pm

... briefing is free to members of GFE, GCIR and Philanthropy New York . NON-Members: The cost is $200 for eligible ... students are the most rapidly growing population in U. S . elementary schools...

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09 Mar 2016

Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting: NYSED Commissioner & Innovative Workforce Strategies for Youth and Young Adults at the National Level

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Since its formation in 2000, New York City Workforce Funders continues to hold quarterly ... feature a presentation by MaryEllen Elia, Commissioner, New York State Department of...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Shows Adults Skip Doctor Visits Due to Cost

Release Date:

01/01/2015

... through Obamacare and finally coming to his office for care . But middle-class workers are increasingly staying away. It' s a deep and common concern across the USA, where employer .....

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Children, Youth and Families

Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

FORE Releases Request for Proposals Focused on Engaging and Empowering Vulnerable Families and Communities to Prevent Opioid Use Disorder

Release Date:

07/20/2021

... the RFP and answer your questions. Register here ! It’ s estimated that one of eight children ages 17 or younger ... has also resulted in more children joining the foster care system and living in poverty...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)

COVID-19 Long Island Philanthropic Response Fund Provides Half a Million Dollars in Grants to Long Island-Based Nonprofits

Release Date:

04/21/2020

... As the needs are much greater than our current resources , we are requesting contributions to the Fund.” ... Response Fund to increase and coordinate philanthropic resources in order to support emergent and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Long Island Community Foundation

IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

Release Date:

09/14/2017

... intelligence technology– trained by some of the nation’ s leading math experts, with feedback from more than 1,000 ... to provide elementary school teachers with targeted math resources for their kindergarten...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

RE.invest Initiative to Partner With Eight Cities to Develop Resilient Stormwater Systems

Release Date:

05/29/2013

... finance urban infrastructure. By helping cities use public resources more efficiently and attract new sources of private investment, RE.invest will reduce the ...

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Disaster Relief

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Penn Announces $1.28 Million Grant for Digital Archaeological Archive

Release Date:

08/01/2013

... to the archaeology of the ancient kingdom of Ur. This new online resource will open the remarkably successful ... which brought to light some of archaeology’ s most extraordinary and famous finds—to scholars...

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Arts

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Leon Levy Foundation

Archives of Atlantic Philanthropies Given to Cornell Library

Release Date:

10/26/2015

... archives of The Atlantic Philanthropies, among the world’ s largest and most influential foundations, will be housed ... causes and action, and set entire geographic regions on new trajectories. Atlantic’...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Deutsche Bank Supports Transgender Economic Empowerment Forum

Release Date:

12/10/2015

... Empowerment Forum Transgender and gender non-conforming New Yorkers need access to jobs and job readiness programs and it' s up to the city and the private sector to make that happen, ... Bank Americas...

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With Support from Rockefeller, '100K Opportunities Initiative' Achieves Hiring Goal Two Years Ahead of Schedule

Release Date:

09/01/2016

... The 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, the country’ s largest employer-led coalition committed to creating ... by 2021. The group will continue to capture and share new recruiting and human resources...

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Workforce Development

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Report Finds Americans’ Salaries Can’t Keep Up With Rising Medical Costs

Release Date:

10/26/2016

... keeping up with spiraling medical costs, according to a new study . A report being issued Wednesday by The ...

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Health

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Mellon Foundation Supports Commission on Language Learning

Release Date:

12/15/2016

... responds to a request from a bipartisan group of U. S . Senators and Members of Congress. It is composed of ... Foundation, a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, and resources from the Academy' s...

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Can Theology Move the Needle on Environmental Issues? Henry Luce Foundation Thinks So

Release Date:

01/18/2017

... for a seminary environmental leadership initiative. It’ s a three-year grant in partnership with the Interfaith ... in Israel, and the Green Seminary Initiative in New Jersey, and will involve a certification...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Henry Luce Foundation

Opinion: What’s Holding Philanthropists Back?

Release Date:

10/06/2017

Opinion: What’ s Holding Philanthropists Back? When I think about social ... introductions and connective relationships. Collaboration. New and straightforward structures for increasing resources...

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Library of Congress Enriches America’s Story by Connecting with Minority Communities, Funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant

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01/27/2021

Library of Congress Enriches America’ s Story by Connecting with Minority Communities, Funded by ... Foundation Grant The Library of Congress today announced a new , multiyear initiative to connect more deeply with...

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Arts

Community Development

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Mellon Foundation

Bloomberg Report Shows Mayors Concerned About Budget, Infrastructure

Release Date:

04/11/2018

... mayors, the Bloomberg American Cities Initiative ' s 2018 American Mayors Survey (22 pages, PDF) found that ... (17 percent), jobs and economic growth (10 percent), and affordable housing (10 percent)...

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18 Jan 2017

Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... – from idea to execution to scaling impact. And it’ s not always seamless! Philanthropic dollars, staff time, and end-user resources can be wasted through inefficient and ... augment their skills with strong...